英语听力教程Unit7答案及听力原文

Unit 7 Fame and Fortune

Part I Getting ready

A.

B. Keys:

1：magazine 2：newspaper 3：Microsoft Company 4：successful 5：richest

6：3rd 7：1955 8：Washington 9：computers 10：13 11：baseball

12：football 13：computer programs 14：perform 15：high

16：computer language 17：Basic 18：valuable 19：office

20：home 21：established 22：1975 23：three 24：computer software

25：established 26：nternational 27：usiness 28：achines 29：1981

30：personal computer 31：operating system 32 ：129 33：computer companies 34：Windows 35：easier 36：officials 37：

38：thousands of millions of dollars 39：16 000 40：48 41：30 42：100 Part II Bill Gate s’ new rules

A. Keys:

1: quailty

2: re-engineering

3: velocity

B. Keys:

1: communication 2: e-mail

3: sales data online 4: insights

5: knowledge workers 6: high-level thinking

7: create virtual teams

8: paper process 9: digital process

10: eliminate single-task jobs

11: digital feedback loop

12: route customer complaints

13: redefine the boundaries

14: business process 15: just-in-time delivery

16: eliminate the middle man

17: help customers solve problems

Part III Great business deals

A. Keys:

1: NATIONAL STEAMSHIP

2: 20 000 3: Aristotle Onassis

4: 6 000 5: American

6: Big Ben 7: 1 000 8: tourist

9: Buckingham Palace 10: 2 000

11: The White House 12: 100 000

13: The Statue of Liberty 14: 100 000 15: Australian

B. Keys:

1: boom 2: world depression 3: millionaire

4: identified 5: fraud 6: five 7: California 8: luxury

Part IV More about the topic: Walt Disney

1: correspondence course 2: Oswald the Rabbit 3: talking cartoon film 4: Walt Disney himself

5: storyteller

6: Ub Iwerks

7: 35; feature-length cartoon film; 2 000 000; three

8: potential

9: 55; 17 000 000

27: taste; vulgarity; children of all ages

Part V Do you know…

1: $24 worth of kettles, axes and cloth.

2: $80 000 000.

3: $27 000 000.

4: About 12 cents.

5: About 800 000 square miles.

6: About 1 600 000 square miles.

7: $7 200 000.

8: About 5 cents.

9: $750 000 000 worth.

10: An estimated 100 000 000 000 tons.

Tape script

Part I Getting ready

A.

B.

In the past few years, hundreds of magazine and newspaper stories have been written about Bill Gates and his company, the reason the Microsoft Company is extremely successful. It has made Bill Gate one of the richest men in the world. William Gates the 3rd was born in 1955, in a western city of Seattle, Washington. He became interested in computers when he was 13 years old. When most young boys his age were playing baseball or football, young Bill Gates was learning to write computer programs. These programs tell computers how to perform useful tasks. Bill Gate attended Harvard University after high school. At Harvard, he began developing the